THE CROYDON UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE

Registered charity 1029466 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Croydon U3A provides opportunities for participation in over 65 member-led groups including languages, chess, rambling, history, Scrabble, poetry - to name but a few. There is a lively outings and holidays programme and a monthly general meeting to which an outside speaker is invited. Members can attend summer schools run by the U3A national office, and study days organised by other local groups.

Objects

[I] TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE NOT IN FULL TIME GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT WHO ARE IN THEIR THIRD AGE (BEING THE PERIOD OF TIME AFTER THE FIRST AGE OF CHILDHOOD DEPENDENCE AND THE SECOND AGE OF FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT AND/OR PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY) RESIDING IN CROYDON AND ITS SURROUNDING LOCALITY.[II] TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR LEISURE TIME AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE ABOVE PERSONS IN THE INTERESTS OF THEIR SOCIAL WELFARE.

Area of benefit: CROYDON AND ITS SURROUNDING LOCALITY.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bromley, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £8,990 for the year ended 31 July 2026, with total income of £77,594 against expenditure of £68,604. Net assets increased to £38,800, comprising a general fund of £22,504 and designated funds. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, with no matters coming to the examiner's attention.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2023 (received 24/06/2024, 24 days after the 31/05/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JENNIFER WILSONchair
• Angela Stagg
• Anne Tanner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fenella Cardwell
• JOY ELLERY
• Karen Hook
• Karen Ip
• Linda Grigsby
• PAUL SMITH
• Patricia Holmes
• Sheila Batchelor
• Steven May

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Croydon

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STOURBRIDGE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (STOURBRIDGE U3A).

• STOURBRIDGE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (STOURBRIDGE U3A) income £39k
• CROWBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £54k
• OLTON AND DISTRICT UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (U3A) income £43k
• UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE - YORK income £141k
• CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £54k
• BRISTOL U3A income £39k

Side by side with its peers

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